Mayor Faruk of Berenice

Mayor Faruk of Berenice (1030-) was the mayor of Berenice (Berenice Epideires, near the Bab-el-Mandeb strait in Djibouti) under the county of Assab.

Biography
Faruk was born in 1030 to a Sunni Muslim Bedouin family, and he became the mayor of Berenice (in present-day Djibouti) under the County of Assab. On 27 September 1076 the armies of Axum and Abyssinia both conquered the city from Assab during their war of conquest.